A Vehicle train originated out of Clovis, NM, bound to Logistic Park, IL, is just out of Marceline. Here the train passes flowers near MP 345, 345 miles west of Chicago, on a nice Labor Day weeken... (more)

The Belt Railway Yard in Chicago, IL, to Kansas City, MO, manifest train is in heavy dynamics as it drops down grade between Bucklin and Ethel. The train is passing under some of the few Santa Fe ... (more)

The hot shot out of North Bay, CA, to Willow Springs, IL, rolls east of the Transcon Mainline near small northeast Missouri town of Medill. The train is seen here passing thru West Medill, where n... (more)

Foreign power isn't real common on the Transcon on this weekend, but unit trains seem to get more of it. Here a Blue Island auto train races towards its destination of Kansas City as they pass und... (more)

Westbound UP trackage rights train drops downgrade between Hart and Ethel. This train is operating from IHB's yard Gibson, IN, to Mira Loma, CA. The train runs over the BNSF Chilly and Marceline S... (more)

Just after sunrise this Barstow, CA, to Galesburg, IL, manifest train races east on the Marceline Sub. The train has just passed under one of the remaining classic Santa Fe style intermediate sign... (more)

5 GE's hustle this stack train under the east approach signal for Marceline. With the PTC antenna hooked up here, this classic Santa Fe style signal maybe in for the long haul in the PTC era? Weir... (more)

The morning silence is broken as 5 GE's hustle this LA Z-train toward Willow Springs. Between 75-85 trains were on the lineups over the Labor Day weekend on Saturday and Sunday. Doesn't get too qu... (more)

BNSF 8391 is the lead motor on a westbound stack train moving toward Kansas City on the Marceline Sub. The train is passing the former Santa Fe station at La Plata still used by Amtrak.

A GEVO and ACe shove a loaded sand train over the massive Missouri River Bridge at Sibley. If I am not mistaken, this is the only remaining portion of single track left on the BNSF's CHI-LA Transc... (more)

As daylight gives to dusk. BNSF 8391 leads it's hotshot intermodal past the former ATSF depot in the quaint, quiet little rural town of La Plata, Mo.

A quiet Sunday morning in the Amish country is interrupted only by the passing of the occasional horse and buggy and this Chicago-bound BNSF stack train on the Marceline Sub.

A fairly new C4 GEVO is on the point of an eastbound freight train passing the former Santa Fe depot now used by Amtrak as a stop for the Southwest Chief.

The silence of a hazy morning in the small town of La Plata is broken by the passing of a very short, and overpowered, intermodal train blasting eastbound for Chicago. With less than 25 cars, thes... (more)

I have been coming to Southern Iowa and Northern Missouri since I was a boy to watch Santa Fe/BNSF trains race across the Marceline Sub. In 2013/2014 things changed as they always do with the rail... (more)